Maintaining a set of patches is usually not a major problem either

> I'm not going to spend days of my life digging into their source code to make the changes I want This is an odd thing to bring up though because that's quite literally the only way to make any changes to suckless software, editing source code in C. The entire philosophy behind is entirely performative in many ways. There's nothing simple or "unbloated" about having to recompile a piece of software every time you want to make what should really be a runtime user configuration, and it makes an entire compiler toolchain effectively a dependency for even the most trivial config change. I tried their window manager out once and the only way to add some functionality through plugins is to apply source code patches, but there's no guarantee that the order doesn't mess things up, so you basically end up manually stitching pieces of code together for functionality that is virtually unrelated. I…